Independence Day:God's Closeness in Uncertain Times
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Peter's final call to a young and growing church
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A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
This sermon explores how to handle hurt, find healing, and maintain hope through faith in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Healer.
Good morning, dear friends. It is a joy and a privilege to gather together today, unified in our faith and our shared love for the Lord. We are here to open our hearts and minds to the Word of God, to seek His wisdom, and to encourage each other in our walk with Him. Today, we will focus on a topic ...read more
Scripture: Zechariah 13:6
Topics: Church Leaders, Hurt
One of the most important thing for a growing church is their need for godly leadership.
Last Sunday, we began this new series of messages called Grow, Church, Grow! We’re spending the next several weeks studying Paul’s letter of instruction for his young protégé named Titus – the person for whom the writing is named. Titus is ministering on an island ...read more
Scripture: Titus 1:5-9
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Purity always brings power and progress.
A. INTRODUCTION 1. Growth phases. The new church was growing. (Note the church growth term from arithmetic). 120 – praying in the Upper Room (Acts 1:15) 3000 – baptized (Acts 2:14) 5000 – men added (Acts 4:4) More added. “Believers were increasingly added” (Acts 5:14). Multiplied. “. . . the ...read more
Scripture: Acts 6:1-7
Denomination: Baptist
Can everyone become a leader in the local church? The writer of Hebrews is bemoaning that after so much time the saints were still immature. Is that the case of the church today? Everyone is expected to be and can be a leader!
Introduction: The fervor of the early church was already dwindling by the time of the writing of this later book of the New Testament. Persecution was causing many to fall away. The writer is bemoaning the fact that by this time many of them should have been teachers. They were still spiritual ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 5:11-14
Denomination: Charismatic
For the first few chapters of Acts we have heard about the beginnings and growth of the early church in Jerusalem after Pentecost. Now we start to see some of the growing pains and the spread of the church over the next several chapters.
Alistair Begg, one of my favourite preachers who spoke daily in Chicago when I was there in May, shared a story from a pastor’s conference he held at his church last year. The theme of the conference was, from our passage today, “we will devote ourselves to the preaching of the word and ...read more
Empowering leadership means putting the “church at large” back into the hands of the people. Elders are there to help govern and protect.
Society today has placed its seal of approval on single parent households and homosexual adoption. The laws allowing such activity give evidence of such a stamp of approval. The ideas of familial leadership have begun to fail quickly. Sociologists and experts in family studies have just recently ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-4
Leadership, a word we love to use in the church. However, what does a real leader look like?
Acts 6:1-7 Defining a Leader Introduction A. Does any one here live a perfect life? B. A life without any problems that occur? C. I know I don’t, I always have different challenges, situations, events, that create problems D. Here in our passage today we find out that the New Testament Church had ...read more
Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance
The church started out well, but they allowed corruption to enter their ranks
INTRODUCTION SLIDE #1 Have you heard the story about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer? He hardly knew her; as a matter of fact his only view of her had been through his binoculars – from the third balcony. But he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that he could be ...read more
Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29
Four ways to honor our spiritual leaders.
When I was writing my dissertation last year and earlier this year I had to read over 100 different books and articles about leadership. One of the authors I encountered again and again was Dr. Warren Bennis, who teaches at leadership USC. One of the more interesting books by Dr. Bennis is called ...read more
Scripture: 1 Timothy 5:17-25, 1 Timothy 5:17
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
The qualities of successful leaders and successful followers.
Loyal Leaders & Faithful Followers Joshua 1:10-18 George was 28 years old, single, and still living with his parents. One Sunday morning, George told his mother he wasn’t going to church. "First," he said, "I’m tired. Second, the people there don’t like me. And third, the sermons are dull." But ...read more
Scripture: Joshua 1:10-18
To find out more about how to find and offer our gifts, our charisms, we should only consider Luther and Peter.
Solemnity of Ss Peter & Paul 2014 Come, Holy Spirit Five hundred and four years ago, a young priest from Germany made a pilgrimage on behalf of his religious community to Rome. He was poorly matched to the priesthood. He had been studying rhetoric and preparing to become a lawyer when his ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 16:15-20
Denomination: Catholic
The kingship was given by God to Saul, but unfortunately he took the grace of God for granted and did all kinds of evil. He lived against the will and purpose of God. Finally ended up his life in disgrace, dishonor and shameful manner. He brought curse.
I Sam 10:17-24: The Elected King This Bible Passage can be divided into three parts with three sub headings for our clear understanding. God made a covenant with Abraham to be his God, Lord and king, that covenant continued to his descendants as that of the blessings of the promises. But now ...read more
Scripture: 1 Samuel 10:17-24
Denomination: Methodist
A Pastor must keep his church protected from outsiders, therefore he must be able to ferverently for the people of God.
Scripture: Neh. 1:8-9 Remeber, I pray, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; but if you return to me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will ...read more
Scripture: Nehemiah 1:8-9
Denomination: Apostolic
The risen Christ now “lives to intercede” for us as our high priest in God’s presence.
IN GOD'S IMAGE 75 - THE CHURCH - OUR WORSHIP LEADER This message is part of a series of 90 sermons based on the title, “In God’s Image – God’s Purpose for humanity.” This series of free sermons or the equivalent free book format is designed to take the reader through an amazing process beginning ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 7:24-25, Numbers 6:24-26, John 17:19, John 20:17, Colossians 3:16-17, Romans 1:20-21, Romans 12:1, Psalm 42:1-2, 1 Corinthians 10:16, Revelation 5:8-10 (view more) (view less)
Denomination: Christian Church
In the year 2002, the Catholic church has come under fire by the news media because of the corruption in the Catholic priesthood.
Those who have studied the history of this church have known something about this corruption for many years. For example, some of the problems today we are hearing about are: (1) THE HOMOSEXUAL PROBLEM IN THE PRIESTHOOD On the Fox News Channel, on “The Factor,” they reported that about 50% of ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 16:15-18
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